
Contact Information
1205 West Clark St.
M/C 257
Research Interests
Observational Cosmology
Clusters of Galaxies and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Large Surveys
Data analysis pipelines for surveys, algorithms for data mining
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Research Description
Felipe Menanteau's research interests focus on Observational Cosmology, he uses clusters of galaxies discovered in Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) surveys as signposts to probe the growth of structure in the Universe. He has led the optical/infrared follow-up campaign for the first generation of SZ surveys from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). He also led the discovery of "El Gordo," the most massive cluster known at high redshift. His research also centers on large optical surveys, algorithms for data mining. He led the analysis for the Blanco Cosmology Survey, and is currently working integrating image analysis algorithms for the Dark Energy Suvey (DES) Data Managment at NCSA.
Education
Ph.D (2000), Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University,UK
Lic.(1996), Physics, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
Additional Campus Affiliations
Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
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Recent Publications
Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bermeo, A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., ... Zuntz, J. (2020). Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological constraints from cluster abundances and weak lensing. Physical Review D, 102(2), [023509]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.023509
Ammazzalorso, S., Gruen, D., Regis, M., Camera, S., Ando, S., Fornengo, N., Bechtol, K., Bridle, S. L., Choi, A., Eifler, T. F., Gatti, M., Maccrann, N., Omori, Y., Samuroff, S., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M. A., Zuntz, J., Carrasco Kind, M., Annis, J., ... Zhang, Y. (2020). Detection of Cross-Correlation between Gravitational Lensing and γ Rays. Physical review letters, 124(10), [101102]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101102
Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Stalder, B., Gladders, M. D., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., ... Zhang, Y. (2020). The SPTPoL extended cluster survey. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 247(1), [25]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab6993
Burke, C. J., Baldassare, V. F., Liu, X., Foley, R. J., Shen, Y., Palmese, A., Guo, H., Herner, K., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., ... Walker, A. R. (2020). The Curious Case of PHL 293B: A Long-lived Transient in a Metal-poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 894(1), [L5]. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab88de
Drlica-Wagner, A., Bechtol, K., Mau, S., McNanna, M., Nadler, E. O., Pace, A. B., Li, T. S., Pieres, A., Rozo, E., Simon, J. D., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Abbott, T. M. C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. C., ... Tarle, G. (2020). Milky Way Satellite Census. I. The Observational Selection Function for Milky Way Satellites in des Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1. Astrophysical Journal, 893(1), [47]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7eb9